Chris MacQuarrie
@cmacquar.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Entomologist, Ecologist, Researcher with NRCan Canadian Forest Service , and a (lapsed) Curler. Occasional climate scientist.
Ontario tried this in the 90s. You know what happens? Executive positions drift back to the capital while lower-paid, lower-influence positions stay in the regions. Nothing is any different but the whole thing is more expensive and that means less $ for frontline work.
As frustration in Western Canada deepens over decisions handed down from Ottawa, one writer says the country’s survival may depend on scattering the federal government far beyond the capital’s bubble. https://macleans.ca/politics/how-to-fix-western-alienation/
How to Fix Western Alienation - Macleans.ca
Ottawa feels out of touch. Spreading the federal government across the country would rebuild trust.
macleans.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Ontario tried this in the 90s. You know what happens? Executive positions drift back to the capital while lower-paid, lower-influence positions stay in the regions. Nothing is any different but the whole thing is more expensive and that means less $ for frontline work.
This is hilarious. If they'd been paid to build a building and it was discovered some of the floors were made of Bologna would we invite them to do a review?
ChatGPT fake citations in a 1.6M$ report! Absurdly unprofessional by Deloitte, NL gov't should sue for a full refund. I expect in a few years this too may be seen as 'normal'. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.L. asks Deloitte to carry out review after 'incorrect' citations found in $1.6M provincial health plan | CBC News
The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it's been in contact with the private company responsible for a new report meant to guide the province into the future, which was found to contain fake ci...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is hilarious. If they'd been paid to build a building and it was discovered some of the floors were made of Bologna would we invite them to do a review?
Some boats are OK to miss. See: Titanic.
EU missing the boat on AI, jeopardising its future, Lagarde warns reut.rs/4oyUdQt
EU missing the boat on AI, jeopardising its future, Lagarde warns
Europe is jeopardising its own future by missing the boat on artificial intelligence and must quickly remove obstacles that prevent the diffusion of this new technology, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Some boats are OK to miss. See: Titanic.
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Don’t miss this! #WalrusTalks are free to watch online — register.
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
At Universities Canada presents The Walrus Talks Innovation Nation, Dr. Kyle Bobiwash invites us to look at the connections between people, place and ecosystems through a new lens.
Buy tickets: WalrusTalksInnovationNation.e...
#InnovationNation #InnovateCanada #MadeInCanada
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#InnovationNation #InnovateCanada #MadeInCanada
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Don’t miss this! #WalrusTalks are free to watch online — register.
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
Dr. Bobiwash is an Assistant Professor and an Indigenous Scholar @umanitoba.bsky.social He’s also a researcher in residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
Insightful and a great speaker. 👏
It's 106 miles to Chicago, Charlie Brown. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses
The line must be drawn here, Charlie Brown! This far, and no farther
Rosebud, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's 106 miles to Chicago, Charlie Brown. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses
Wanted to be a vet. Until I met the kids that *really* wanted to be vets. Then got my best ever grades in an entomology course followed by a summer job that I loved in a pest lab. Then MSc & PhD b/c they told me I wouldn't get into grad school. Then got the only job I'm qualified for.
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Wanted to be a vet. Until I met the kids that *really* wanted to be vets. Then got my best ever grades in an entomology course followed by a summer job that I loved in a pest lab. Then MSc & PhD b/c they told me I wouldn't get into grad school. Then got the only job I'm qualified for.
Do these Swedish jets come with the Alan key or do we need to have our own?
McGuinty not ruling out fighter jet purchases from several companies with F-35 decision still pending
The Swedish company Saab wants to build Gripen fighter jets in Canada
The Swedish company Saab wants to build Gripen fighter jets in Canada
McGuinty not ruling out fighter jet purchases from several companies with F-35 decision still pending
Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada isn’t ruling out diversifying its fighter-jet purchases from more than one company in order to fulfil capability requirements.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Do these Swedish jets come with the Alan key or do we need to have our own?
I want to meet someone in the 14% who don't trust the weather network...
From a Pollara survey earlier this year: Trust in Media #media
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I want to meet someone in the 14% who don't trust the weather network...
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What is the point of CanCon if we don’t have a mini series on Farley Mowatt’s service in the Italian Campaign?
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What is the point of CanCon if we don’t have a mini series on Farley Mowatt’s service in the Italian Campaign?
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
One of Canada’s most beloved authors. he wrote a novel and a memoir on his experience
100%. Would watch
Band of Brothers was so good. Why have we only had a few others of this type of show?
I want a WW1 CanCon version following the 29th Brigade of the CEF
I want a WW1 CanCon version following the 29th Brigade of the CEF
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
100%. Would watch
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Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Marie-Josée Fortin (@utoronto.ca), a globally recognized leader in spatial ecology with a career dedicated to advancing spatial analysis in ecological research, has been awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. #COEE2025
My favorite Gould quote.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My favorite Gould quote.
I work in the same research area as my spouse, but she didn't take my last name. So occasionally someone who knows us both individually connects the dots that we are married. It's never not funny when this happens and we're both waiting for the first time someone bad mouths one of us to the other.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I work in the same research area as my spouse, but she didn't take my last name. So occasionally someone who knows us both individually connects the dots that we are married. It's never not funny when this happens and we're both waiting for the first time someone bad mouths one of us to the other.
Having been in a few #EntSoc planning meetings I would have loved to have been in the one where the Llama was discussed...
Entomologists love insects. Do they also love llamas?
Yes, yes they do.
You never know what you might see at the ESA Annual Meeting. #EntSoc25
Yes, yes they do.
You never know what you might see at the ESA Annual Meeting. #EntSoc25
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Having been in a few #EntSoc planning meetings I would have loved to have been in the one where the Llama was discussed...
You'd have to be at the bottom of @lakesuperior.bsky.social to not have noticed today's the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot's original is the GOAT, the best cover of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is by The Headstones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LB...
Headstones - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Headstones
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You'd have to be at the bottom of @lakesuperior.bsky.social to not have noticed today's the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot's original is the GOAT, the best cover of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is by The Headstones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LB...
The only reason I understand this map is because I read @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became & The World We Make....
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The only reason I understand this map is because I read @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became & The World We Make....
Odo should have to pay property taxes on his bucket.
what star trek political opinion would you have if you lived in universe? would you still be weird about the xindi? would you be one of the people who protests the Klingon embassy in Paris? Me, i'd be a borg truther
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Odo should have to pay property taxes on his bucket.
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When you decline an invitation to review a manuscript but suggest colleagues you’d like to keep occupied as “suitable alternative reviewers”
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
When you decline an invitation to review a manuscript but suggest colleagues you’d like to keep occupied as “suitable alternative reviewers”
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Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.
Every parent in my neighborhood this evening at 745: Alright let's wrap it up.
a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
ALT: a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Every parent in my neighborhood this evening at 745: Alright let's wrap it up.
C'mon guys the game is at 8. My neighborhood is a ghost town by 9 because the candy is all gone. The keeners are out by 6 and counting Reese's pieces by 830.
Ride or die Blue Jays fans eschew Halloween, as parents of trick-or-treaters look for middle ground
Ride or die Blue Jays fans eschew Halloween, as parents of trick-or-treaters look for middle ground
While the convergence of Halloween festivities and Jays watch parties could just as easily devolve into the stuff of nightmares, the fear of a Shohei Ohtani swing, for many, is
www.thestar.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
C'mon guys the game is at 8. My neighborhood is a ghost town by 9 because the candy is all gone. The keeners are out by 6 and counting Reese's pieces by 830.
You have no idea how hard it is to get a tag on this wall...
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
You have no idea how hard it is to get a tag on this wall...
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It's great to see the kids so excited and R and coding.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's great to see the kids so excited and R and coding.
Can one of my Ameri-friends explain the purple category in today's @nytimes.com Connections? 'Cause I thought I was pretty good at US geography but I don't get it:
Connections
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October 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Can one of my Ameri-friends explain the purple category in today's @nytimes.com Connections? 'Cause I thought I was pretty good at US geography but I don't get it:
Connections
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If you see this quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If you see this quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.